Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.438
- Place of Origin:
- Portland, ME
- Date:
- 1900-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened box, Freeman Pharmacal Company, Portland, ME. Circular wooden box covered with yellow paper, printed in black. Top: "DR. / FREEMAN'S / TOOTHACHE WAX / CURES / INSTANTLY. / 10 CTS." Around side: "DR. / FREEMAN'S / TOOTHACHE WAX / Directions -- Fill the Cavity and Rub on Gums." Tax stamp on bottom.
- Material:
- Wood
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-0.7 Dia-1.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068).
- People:
- Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Toothaches
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